IBM Corp. said today it’s building on the recent launch of generative artificial intelligence coding capabilities for mainframe developers by launching a suite of new offerings that will make it ...

1952 – “Amazing" Grace Hopper begins development of natural language programming languages that would lead to Flowmatic, the precursor of Cobol. 1959 – First Cobol specifications completed in December ...

While the future is uncertain, the decades-old programming language running on mainframes proved its staying power during the pandemic. Now, more professionals are needed. Image: iStockphoto/Deagreez ...

IBM is killing off a mainframe coding toolkit for PCs and withdrawing all support, directing developers to instead use a cloud-hosted environment for dev and test purposes.… In a notice issued on ...

The IBM mainframe is the latest platform to gain a generative AI-based assistant to simplify automation and help customers with routine tasks. IBM rolled out its new watsonx Assistant for Z v1, which ...

There are few advantages to growing old, but if you were lucky enough to train, back in the hidden midst of times past, in programming languages COBOL or PL/I, you may have landed in later life into a ...